Experience

• Senior Creature Artist at Exetinct

  Exeter, GB

  January 2026 - Present

  Creature Modeller for 3D print prehistoric collectables

• Senior Creature Artist at Facts Dinosaurs

  LA, US

  February 2025 - Present

  Creating prehistoric creatures
  
  Dimetrodon
  
  Diplocalus
  
  Unannounced

• Creature Modeler Mentor at CG101

  London, GB

  May 2025 - May 2025

  Industry mentor for CG 101 Portfolio review sessions - focus on characters/creature for film, tv, games and adverts

• FMX 2025 Creature Modeler MAXON Zbrush Demo Speaker at Maxon Zbrush

  Stuttgart, DE

  May 2025 - May 2025

  In this presentation, Sian will demonstrate and discuss how artists can benefit from exploring scientific research to strengthen their design process and anatomical understanding. Utilising fossil data, CT scans and scientific illustrations, to help guide us in creating realistic depictions of prehistoric life using Zbrush.

• Senior Creature Modeler at FXPHD: Realistic Creature Modelling for Production

  AU

  November 2024 - April 2025

  This course offers a grounded, professional approach to building realistic organic creatures for visual effects. Using the Giganotosaurus as a case study, Sian walks you through the end-to-end process of sculpting, detailing, and preparing a creature asset for production. Whether refining your modeling workflow or aiming to work at a studio level, the course provides a clear and structured path through the creature modeling pipeline.

  You’ll cover concept sculpting, the importance of strong reference and research, and how clean topology and organised UVs benefit downstream departments. The course also dives into skin detailing, scale flow, and asymmetry, demonstrating how subtle sculpting decisions can help introduce narrative elements and realism to your models. The final asset is presented through dailies-style turntable renders, offering a professional-quality finish. Tools used include ZBrush, Mudbox, and Maya.

• BFX Mentor Model/texture 2022 at Bournemouth University

  April 2022 - June 2022

  BFX Summer Mentorship for Model.

  BFX Easter Jam Mentorship for model/texture category. Main theme is Sustainability 'Life on Land' with a focus on deforestation for the categories reviewed. I took part in two, two-hour zoom sessions giving industry feedback on students work. From inital concept to final renders; with a focus on anatomy, form, functional topology for deformation, texturing and shot composition.

• 3D Paleo Artist at Bournemouth University in association with Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology

  Remote

  September 2018 - February 2018

  Published in 2019 by Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology.

  Worked on a collaborative project with Dr Stuart Sumida, anatomical consult for Disney, called ‘PATTERNS’. Using Zbrush; with morphing, interpolation and extrapolation techniques alongside scientific data, I reconstructed extinct group of pelycosaurs. While doing so, forming a hypothesis generator, for the plausible intermediate species - that potentially fills the gaps within our current knowledge, for use by students, artist and palaeontologist.
  
  Limnoscelis-Sphenacodon-Dimetrodon. From these initial 3 species, I created 7 models that depict the potential development stages, filling the evolutionary gap. This tool was later proven invaluable, as it accurately generated a known species called Ctenospondylus, through the process of interpolation.